Mirrors, shadows and colours, sentence 20
A prism splits white light into the colours of the rainbow.
Who acts: prism · What happens: split · To what, where: white light, colours
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mirrors, shadows and colours» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prism), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 prism | det |
| 2 | prism | prism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 splits | nsubj |
| 3 | splits | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 light | amod |
| 5 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 splits | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 colours | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 colours | det |
| 8 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 splits | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 rainbow | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rainbow | det |
| 11 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 colours | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 splits | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | split | present | a prism | white light | into the colours of the rainbow result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent light=Patient into colour=Result |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:world:084-mirrors-shadows-colours.lesson:20.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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